RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Understanding Architectural Choreography Through Museums

ABSTRACT
The research addresses the concept of movement- the design principle and architectural
choreography and also the role of time, the human's eye, and perception to classify it
“latent or movement”. This parameter not only involves the physical act of traversing
through spaces but also encapsulates the user's experience during this journey, thereby
influencing the overall design. In order to understand the above, study of different
museums has been done as a way of making clear their differences in terms of spatial
arrangements, and perhaps their relations to a family of possible movement pattern, or
a model of spatial forms.

KEYWORDS: Movement, Museum, Architectural choreography, spatial arrangement

INTRODUCTION
In the domain of space design, various fundamental features contribute to the creation
of meaningful environments, encircling aspects such as scale, proportion, and the
interplay between the built and the unbuilt. One particularly vital factor among these
traits is the parameter of movement. ‘Movement’ in Architecture can mean different
things, and the idea of ‘expressed movement’ has, alone, been variously conceived.
‘contained movement’, where it is not the architecture that is thought of as moving, but
the eye, mind, imagined body or forces; and ‘represented movement’, where there is an
implication or illusion that the architecture is in motion.
This paper sets out to provide a syntactic examination of selected museums-
1. Jewish Museum Berlin, 2001
2. MoMA New York, 1929
Despite the fact that buildings are immobile structures in architecture, there is a crucial
correlation between architecture and dancing that gives light on their relationship.
Through a collaborative workshop involving architecture and dance students, the project
"Placing Space: Architecture, Action, Dimension" (Eisenach, 2008) investigates this
connection. Dancers express themselves through movements that follow precise
principles. Similarly, in architecture, observers need to move around to experience and
perceive the space fully. As stressed in "Architecture, Form, Space, and Order" (Ching,
2014), movement becomes essential for understanding the forms and spaces that make
architecture. While dance relies on the dancer's movements to express themselves,
architecture relies on the viewer's movements to fully comprehend its shape and space.
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